From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sape Mullender To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] architectures MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20010712071555.9BB32199E1@mail.cse.psu.edu> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 03:15:53 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c6b0c4ec-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >>>I would think that people on this list would all agree that the Intel >>>IA32 is the canonical example of bad design. >You have obviously never seen IA64. >IA32 is still canonical bad design. IA64 is (bad design)⁲. If bad designs were canonical, that wouldn't be so bad ... Sape